In one embodiment, a connecting lead connecting between a current collecting tab of an electrode group and an electrode terminal in a battery is provided. The connecting lead includes a top plate portion and a leg portion, a leg portion is bent relative to the top plate portion to one side in a thickness direction of the top plate portion, and a bend line at a bend position to the top plate portion is along a width direction of the top plate portion. The leg portion includes an extension portion located apart from the bend position to the top plate portion. The extension portion includes, on an outer surface, a side face relaying between a pair of main faces and facing one side in the width direction of the top plate portion. The side face is joined to the current collecting tab.

In one embodiment, a connecting lead connecting between a current collecting tab of an electrode group and an electrode terminal in a battery is provided. The connecting lead includes a top plate portion and a leg portion, a leg portion is bent relative to the top plate portion to one side in a thickness direction of the top plate portion, and a bend line at a bend position to the top plate portion is along a width direction of the top plate portion. The leg portion includes an extension portion located apart from the bend position to the top plate portion. The extension portion includes, on an outer surface, a side face relaying between a pair of main faces and facing one side in the width direction of the top plate portion. The side face is joined to the current collecting tab.

A battery pack and charger platform including a voltage coupling circuit comprising an input that receives an input voltage and an output that sends an output voltage, a voltage monitoring circuit having an input coupled to the voltage coupling circuit output and an output, and a power source having an input coupled to the voltage monitoring circuit output, the power source input receives an input voltage representative of a charge instruction.

A battery system includes battery cells arranged and adhered to a carrier. One or more side walls are bonded with adhesive to the battery cells to provide support, and a current collector assembly is also adhered on one axial side of the battery cells. One or more dividers may be included to maintain electrically isolation between the parallel connected battery cell groups. The other axial side of the battery cells is adhered to a cooling plate. A similar structure is bonded with adhesive to the other side of the cooling plate to form a compact battery system. Shear walls, busbars, terminal busbars, and an isolation bracket with a mounted Electronic Control Unit are bonded with adhesive to the assembly to form the battery system. Each adhesive, or type of adhesive, may exhibit specified criteria and requirements such as strength, thermal conductivity, electronic conductivity, curing requirements, or a combination thereof.

A battery system includes battery cells arranged and adhered to a carrier. One or more side walls are bonded with adhesive to the battery cells to provide support, and a current collector assembly is also adhered on one axial side of the battery cells. One or more dividers may be included to maintain electrically isolation between the parallel connected battery cell groups. The other axial side of the battery cells is adhered to a cooling plate. A similar structure is bonded with adhesive to the other side of the cooling plate to form a compact battery system. Shear walls, busbars, terminal busbars, and an isolation bracket with a mounted Electronic Control Unit are bonded with adhesive to the assembly to form the battery system. Each adhesive, or type of adhesive, may exhibit specified criteria and requirements such as strength, thermal conductivity, electronic conductivity, curing requirements, or a combination thereof.

A method of manufacturing a secondary battery including an electrode body element fabricating step in which a first electrode body element including a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate, and a second electrode body element including a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate are fabricated, a tab-connecting step in which a first positive electrode tab group of the first electrode body element and a second positive electrode tab group of the second electrode body element are connected to a second positive electrode collector, and a first negative electrode tab group of the first electrode body element and a second negative electrode tab group of the second electrode body element are connected to a second negative electrode collector, and an electrode body fabricating step in which, after the tab-connecting step, the first electrode body element and the second electrode body element are unified.

Thin-film batteries having a novel encapsulation system.

A battery module includes a plurality of secondary battery cells and a negative current collector. Each of the secondary battery cells includes an electrode assembly including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, a case accommodating the electrode assembly, a positive terminal electrically connected to the positive electrode, and a negative terminal electrically connected to the negative electrode. The case of each of the plurality of secondary battery cells has a groove that is part of the negative terminal. The negative current collector includes a negative connection portion mechanically and electrically connected with a first one of the plurality of secondary battery cells by a first press fit connection in the groove of the case.

A battery module includes a plurality of secondary battery cells and a negative current collector. Each of the secondary battery cells includes an electrode assembly including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, a case accommodating the electrode assembly, a positive terminal electrically connected to the positive electrode, and a negative terminal electrically connected to the negative electrode. The case of each of the plurality of secondary battery cells has a groove that is part of the negative terminal. The negative current collector includes a negative connection portion mechanically and electrically connected with a first one of the plurality of secondary battery cells by a first press fit connection in the groove of the case.

A battery module includes secondary battery cells; a one positive current collector structure; and a negative current collector structure; wherein the secondary battery cells include an electrode assembly, a positive terminal electrically, a negative terminal, and a case receiving the electrode assembly, the positive current collector structure interconnects the positive terminals of the secondary battery cells, the negative current collector structure interconnects the negative terminals of the secondary battery cells, the case of each secondary battery cell includes a groove extending around a circumference of the case and forming a part of the negative terminal, and the negative current collector structure includes a flat negative busbar in a plane aligned with the circumference of the case, the flat negative busbar projecting into the groove of the cases to connect the negative current collector structure and the negative terminals of secondary battery cells.